My college garden has grown a ton since my last post. Since i haven’t been living up in Bellingham this summer, the fruits of my spring labor has manifested in fits and bursts.
Dream dinner
My roommate Max brought down a couple zucchinis down to Seattle and we cooked them up on some shish-kabobs. Max has been tending to the garden with the same attentiveness and protectiveness as a mother grizzly. Most recently he told me of the demise of our squash plants, who all succumbed to the near inevitable curse of powdery mildew. Our zucchini plants led a good life and managed to produce squashes of mammoth proportions.
That’s a quarter next to the zuke!
These were taken right after I returned from volunteering at Camp Orkila. I have heard that when zucchinis have grown to such a large size, they become fairly tasteless, but i wanted to try cooking them anyways.
I tried to treat it like a potato thinking that it could work as a base ingredient. I shredded it up using a cheese grater, squeezed out as much moisture as i could, and used it to cook up something similar to a frittata. It was a huge disaster and i didn’t even bother taking a photo of the mushy bland results.
Have you had better luck with big bland zucchinis? Send us a picture or a recipie!
I'd love to hear from you!